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Genesis 31:34

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34 Now Rachel had taken the teraphim and put them under the camel's saddle; and she sat upon them. And Laban explored all the tent, but found nothing.

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Arcana Coelestia #4144

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4144. 'And now you have surely gone' means that, acting from its proprium, it had separated itself. This is clear from the meaning of 'surely going' as being separated - this separation, it is evident, being in the proprium.

  
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